Satoshi Tajiri Manga Reveals A Treasure Trove Of Unreleased Pokemon

This week, a book on Pokemon creator Satoshi Tajiri’s life and the creation of Game Freak was released in Japan.

Although there were many claims made in the past on how internal documentation of Pokemon Red and Green never existed or were lost to time, the Satoshi Tajiri manga contains a panel on what appears to be an internal poll of Pokemon created during development:

As you can see, some of the Pokemon shown in the manga never saw the day of light, while others made the cut. In the final version of Pokemon Red and Green, unused Pokemon on that sheet turned into a Missingno: